RSPEC testing controller rendering view?

Question

So I am pretty new to testing with RSPEC

I am just testing the rendering of my controller like so:

describe "GET job" do 
  it "renders the jobs view" do 
  get :jobs
  expect(response).to render_template :jobs
end

However my view (jobs) is a folder, not a template so the above dosnt work. How do i test to see if the response is going to the jobs view folder. inside my jobs view folder i have many different files.

My customer controller action looks like so:

 def jobs
    @jobs = @customer.jobs
 end

Which template in the folder is the one that should be rendered by the jobs action? — infused
– infused, Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 4:07

karlingen · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-17 09:16:20Z

4

To test that the template foobar inside app/views/jobs/ is rendered you should use this code:

describe "GET job" do 
  it "renders the jobs view" do 
  get :jobs
  expect(response).to render_template :foobar
end

If you are not testing JobsController and would like to make sure that it still renders app/views/jobs/foobar then you should change it to this line:

expect(response).to render_template("jobs/foobar")

answered Apr 17, 2015 at 9:16

karlingen

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Siva Gollapalli · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-19 10:09:15Z

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Ideally, in rspec controller test view rendering has been stubbed by default. To check view rendering in controller specs you have to do as follows:

describe "GET job" do 
  render_views

  it "renders the jobs view" do 
  get :jobs

  expect(response).to render_template("jobs/foobar")
end

where render_views will make render respective views of a controller action.

answered Apr 19, 2015 at 10:09

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Nitrodist Over a year ago

Does this convert it into a request spec? I did this and it goes from 200ms to 7000ms to run that one test

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